"If they want it to end, then fine. Let it end for them. But not for everyone else." It's one of the few things he won't just make concessions about. Usually even if he feels strongly about something he won't risk fighting with his siblings about it, but this is an exception. He doesn't want to argue though, and there's a weariness and finality in his tone that makes that clear.
"I know." There's not much else he can say, really. He'd like to think that Michael could be talked around, made to realise slowly that their Father was gone for good, so that he could get used to the idea without it breaking him completely. He's not convincing himself, though. Perhaps if Michael hadn't built so much of his life around God, around trying to please him and bring him back, it wouldn't be so hard. If there were someone or something else that could help fill the gap - but not even Raphael and Lucifer could come close. "Guess Dad's kind of a dick, isn't He? He must realise what He's doing to Michael - what He's done. It isn't fair."
He may think God was right about the humans. About the angels, too - he believes, as much as he loves his family, that they are broken and flawed. He can see why God would prefer the humans to them, and he accepts that - going back to the 'toys' analogy he'd used with Lucifer, he understands that of course God would prefer the shiny new toys instead of the old ones. It's like the difference between The Sims 3 and playing make believe with toy soldiers. But he doesn't think he went about it the right way. He'd treated them exactly as if they were toys, and forgotten to take into account (or just outright ignored) that they were sentient. Even if it had just been a test, God had changed the rules on them unexpectedly and they hadn't been able to adjust. He could've at least come back and told them they'd failed instead of letting them keep going indefinitely under the delusion that he would come back if they could just be good enough. That was what had really broken them, not any inherent flaw, and Gabriel can't forgive him for what it had done to those who were the worst affected.
"Well, most of the time. I think he's smarter than that, at least."
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"I know." There's not much else he can say, really. He'd like to think that Michael could be talked around, made to realise slowly that their Father was gone for good, so that he could get used to the idea without it breaking him completely. He's not convincing himself, though. Perhaps if Michael hadn't built so much of his life around God, around trying to please him and bring him back, it wouldn't be so hard. If there were someone or something else that could help fill the gap - but not even Raphael and Lucifer could come close. "Guess Dad's kind of a dick, isn't He? He must realise what He's doing to Michael - what He's done. It isn't fair."
He may think God was right about the humans. About the angels, too - he believes, as much as he loves his family, that they are broken and flawed. He can see why God would prefer the humans to them, and he accepts that - going back to the 'toys' analogy he'd used with Lucifer, he understands that of course God would prefer the shiny new toys instead of the old ones. It's like the difference between The Sims 3 and playing make believe with toy soldiers. But he doesn't think he went about it the right way. He'd treated them exactly as if they were toys, and forgotten to take into account (or just outright ignored) that they were sentient. Even if it had just been a test, God had changed the rules on them unexpectedly and they hadn't been able to adjust. He could've at least come back and told them they'd failed instead of letting them keep going indefinitely under the delusion that he would come back if they could just be good enough. That was what had really broken them, not any inherent flaw, and Gabriel can't forgive him for what it had done to those who were the worst affected.
"Well, most of the time. I think he's smarter than that, at least."